Fireworks

This is a discussion on Fireworks within the Off Topic & Humor Discussion forums, part of the The Back Porch category; I'm sitting in the tower tonight and with the clear visibility I can see no fewer than 32 fireworks displays. They are all around the ...

"To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic." Ted Nugent

"To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic." Ted Nugent

While you're enjoying the sights, I'll be sitting on my tractor - water wagon attached - waiting for the city idiots to burn my pasture with their damn bottle rockets and firecrackers. Tomorrow, I get to get out on the road and clean up their messes and beer bottles. Sure wish they'd stay at home.

Fireworks are over and a BIG thunderstorm has arrived. It had been rolling in from the NW for about an hour and it has arrived with gusto. Look at Lake Erie on WX radar and check it out. BOOM!

Originally Posted by Yankeejib

I asked him before......ATC...air traffic control.

He's interneting on company time.....oooops......

I have been here 7.5 hours and not one airplane. It's a bit like the fire dept though. You have to sit here and wait because you just never know when something bad is going to happen. You sit all day doing nothing and then somebody will call out of the blue screaming "Mayday" and you gotta roll with it.

"To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic." Ted Nugent

"To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic." Ted Nugent

I have been here 7.5 hours and not one airplane. It's a bit like the fire dept though. You have to sit here and wait because you just never know when something bad is going to happen. You sit all day doing nothing and then somebody will call out of the blue screaming "Mayday" and you gotta roll with it.

Much like commercial piloting has been described - hours of endless boredom, punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

I could use a storm. We've been in a drought for awhile and as a result, the only fireworks going off around me are wildfires. Had one burn 500+ acres a few miles from my house that they are still dealing with. Luckly for us, the U.S. Air Force donated some tanker planes that dumped water on the spots that were hard to get to. Its pretty rural here, so only one house was lost.

No one has sold any fireworks...all the stands have pretty much the same stuff they started out with, since Fireworks have been banned.

Fireworks are over and a BIG thunderstorm has arrived. It had been rolling in from the NW for about an hour and it has arrived with gusto. Look at Lake Erie on WX radar and check it out. BOOM!

I have been here 7.5 hours and not one airplane. It's a bit like the fire dept though. You have to sit here and wait because you just never know when something bad is going to happen. You sit all day doing nothing and then somebody will call out of the blue screaming "Mayday" and you gotta roll with it.

Having once been in the cockpit of a single engine plane when the engine blew climbing out at 2K feet, I
appreciate that comment about Mayday. They got a United Jet out of the way and handed us a 9,000 ish
foot runway to glide to. At least we weren't on fire. And I'm here to brag about it.

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Fireworks are over and a BIG thunderstorm has arrived. It had been rolling in from the NW for about an hour and it has arrived with gusto. Look at Lake Erie on WX radar and check it out. BOOM!

I have been here 7.5 hours and not one airplane. It's a bit like the fire dept though. You have to sit here and wait because you just never know when something bad is going to happen. You sit all day doing nothing and then somebody will call out of the blue screaming "Mayday" and you gotta roll with it.

I'm a little ways across the border from you, so I got to see the storm roll in a little while after you did (I assume). In my opinion, the lightning was more impressive than the fireworks where I am at.

It was really good. Did you see last nights storm? Last night was better but different. Way more lightning and right on top of us for a while. Tonight had more cloud to cloud lightning though and that looks really cool. Both were awesome in their own way.

"To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic." Ted Nugent